Last Sunday saw the 42nd World Environment Day. It is observed every year on the 5th June and “aims to inspire more people than ever before to take action to prevent the growing strain on planet Earth’s natural systems from reaching the breaking point.” (http://www.un.org/en/events/environmentday/)
Y1 and Y2 were inspired to take action and decided to do a “Provo Primary Clean Up”. So, armed with plastic bags and lots of determination, the Key Stage One children went about picking up litter from around school environment. We feel that we are pretty good at not creating litter, but we are sad to say that we found lots of little pieces of litter, the main offender being plastic! Plastic drink draw wrappers, plastic food wrappers and plastic bags had all been blown (we suspect) into the bushes that make up parts of our playground. We worked really hard and are pretty sure we collected almost all of the litter.
It is really important to keep the Turks and Caicos Islands ‘Beautiful by Nature’.
Doing a clean up in your local area or at your local beach goes a long way to keeping our environment safe, hygienic and a place for all to enjoy!